Good times at the Linkery

Named one of the 100 Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants in America, Gourmet Magazine, October 2007

We've Moved!

We're now at the corner of 30th St and North Park Way. We're serving food every nite and working out the details of the new place, in preparation for our Grand (re-)Opening on Thursday, July 10th. You can follow our progress on our blog.

WELCOME

The Linkery is a neighborhood restaurant in North Park, San Diego, California. We get to know the people who grow and make the best food and drink in the world, and share it with our community. We feature:

We are open every day, with full kitchen from 5:30pm to 11:30pm.

MORE PRESS

Featured in Bon Appetit magazine, "Top Tables", March 2006 (link) as "a good example of San Diego's growing number of ingredient-driven restaurants." Also, "sausage rules here" and the entrees "do the city's Mexican food scene proud." (to explain: our cuisine is global including Latin American influences).

"If knowing that your Hampshire or Berkshire breed pigs are pastured makes chowing down on handcrafted sausages a guiltless pleasure, The Linkery is the place to indulge. The folks behind this unique, casual spot believe in 'meeting your meal.'" - Gourmet magazine, "America's Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants", October 2007

Named Best New Restaurant, SDCityBeat magazine 2005

"One-of-a-kind...the homemade sausages are superlative, to say the least" - David Nelson, San Diego Magazine September 2007

"Very Good" (3 stars), Naomi Wise, San Diego Reader

"An excellent menu of unusual fare served in one of the coolest-looking dining rooms in San Diego" - Joshua Sibelman, SDCityBeat magazine

City's Best (best burger 2005, 2006; best hot dog 2006) , AOL CityGuide San Diego

"The top of my list for favorite and most original neighborhood restaurants" - Frank Sabatini, Jr., GLT

"Something more than just a pleasure" - Peter Syravong, Curiculum magazine, Summer 2007

"This bistro oozes cool imagination....You'll wish you lived in this neighborhood" - 944 magazine, November 2005

"The best sausage in town -- this we know. In fact, the sausage taco in a corn tortilla with mustard japaleno aioli could go head to head with any fish taco out there. But little did this cool North Park bistro know that its thoughtful ode to vegetarians would steal the sausage thunder for which it has become known." - Riviera magazine, August 2006

SEATING

We seat on a first come basis, which means we don't take reservations. We've got a pretty small restaurant, and sometimes it fills up.

If you’re happiest when you can surely sit right away, we encourage you to join us early in the evening (between 5 and 6:30 seems best). Otherwise come on in and if there’s a wait for a table, enjoy a drink or two at the bar.

Also, we're open until 11pm every night, and we welcome guests who join us toward the end of the evening.

Whenever you come to visit us, we'll take care of you the best we can.

THE LINKERY IS A "NO TIPPING" RESTAURANT

We do not accept tips.

We address the costs of providing table service by charging for it. Bar and table service is charged on the bill for dining-in guests at 18%.

We find this appropriate for professionals in every industry, including hospitality.

For guests that would like to show extra gratitude, you can leave cash behind for our charity of the month.

For further information about our "tip-free" policy, click here.

Latest entries from our Blog

Baby Take A Walk Outside
posted by Jay on 04 Jul 2008

We will be closed to business on the Fourth of July so some number of us can bike down to OB (which I’m told is also known as “North Park By The Sea”) and then hang out in Bird Park (28th and Upas) in the late afternoon, evening, and fireworks. We’re not busting out [...]

Summer Yule!
posted by Jay on 04 Jul 2008

We’ve got Alesmith Summer YuleSmith in the house, btw. It’s their seasonal beer for the Fourth of July, and it’s a big delicious Double IPA thing.

?Le Freak? was the first song to be knocked out of (and return to) the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 three times
posted by Steph on 03 Jul 2008

“Le Freak”  in beer form, is on cask tonight. In exactly one week Super Freak will be on cask. More about that later……

The Kid Stays In The Picture
posted by Jay on 28 Jun 2008

This time as barbecue. Tonite we’ll have BBQ sucking kid as a main dish. I’m not yet sure of the details but I saw some lovely Rainier cherries from Tenerelli Orchards being pressed into service. Also, the local spot prawns are still on menu and we have grass fed bevette steak tonite, [...]

Small Business of The Year Award
posted by Jay on 26 Jun 2008

A month ago or so I had the pleasure of spending the day in Sacramento with State Senator Christine Kehoe, who is a North Park resident and a splendid person, to boot. I was there because she named the Linkery the “Small Business of the Year” for her district, which is part of an [...]

Quietly Checking In
posted by Jay on 26 Jun 2008

If you’re wondering why we’ve been a little quieter than usual on the blog, it’s just because we’ve been working like busy bees trying to get everything together. So some quick notes… * Spot prawns go on the menu tonite. These are large local spot prawns which we bought live at Pearson’s on the [...]

More Stone Fruit? plus Spot Prawns
posted by Lea on 25 Jun 2008

We were excited about the quality and variety of stone fruits and berries that we were able to offer on our menu last week, so Jay and I repeated the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market expedition this week. This time we went armed with a bit more experience and a better idea of the quantities we [...]

Add Summer Stone Fruit
posted by Lea on 20 Jun 2008

In case Jay?s post didn?t get your mouth watering enough, here are a few snapshots of said fruit. These marionberries are huge and delicious. After trying my first one, I had a moment in which I thought the rest were too precious to eat. They are super-juicy; in just resting on a plate they sort [...]

CORN DOGS
posted by Michael on 19 Jun 2008

We’re super excited to be able to serve another one of our unique takes on street food done Linkery-style. This time it’s pastured CORN DOGS, with a central coast twist, to boot! We took our house made grass-fed central coast bison hot dogs (the bison is from Wild Wind Farm in Creston CA), [...]

SaMoFaMa
posted by Jay on 18 Jun 2008

We’re finally getting a sense of this new scale we’re at, and starting to learn some new ways to do what we do. Clearly we need to expand the number of farms we work with, so today Lea and I drove up to the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market. This I’ll say, there’s a reason everybody [...]

Thats how they serve it in England, right?
posted by Steph on 18 Jun 2008

The cask tonight is Craftsman’s English style Brown Ale. A few breweries were kind enough to add a cask or two on the truck headed for last weekend’s real ale festival and disperse them around town at local pubs and such. This Craftsman brew is the first of that bunch. On deck are Mission IPA, [...]

D. Food
posted by Jay on 14 Jun 2008

I just got back from a very quick trip to Mexico City for purposes of research (and R & R). It was awesome, of course. Particularly memorable meals at El Bajio (traditional Mexican) and Contramar (seafood), and Biko (Basque traditional or modern, you pick) was out of this world. Lots of delicious [...]

These pretzels are making me thirsty
posted by Michael on 13 Jun 2008

Our resident wonder-baker Aileen just baked up a batch of traditional soft pretzels, topped with California sea salt, which we’ll be serving with our spicy house mustard. And what better way to wash down that salty treat than with a freshly tapped cask ale. Matt Brynildson, of Firestone Walker Brewing, has hooked us [...]

Timely Results
posted by Jay on 08 Jun 2008

Here’s a case study in what a community can do when fuel prices are high, the economy is in the dumps, and good food is therefore priced out of the reach of many folks…grow good food in the city. I think this direction is where our community is headed, or should be, and we’re [...]

Super Bisonte Dog
posted by Jay on 07 Jun 2008

Tonite, our bacon-wrapped Mexi-dog features a house-made hot dog of 100% pasture-raised buffalo from Wild Wind Farm in Creston, California. This is the first time we’ve served buffalo! Also, the Hinesley steak is back for at least tonite. Or at least part of tonite.

Ain?t Over Till Pavlova
posted by Jay on 05 Jun 2008

Linkery baking wizard Aileen just made a bunch of the damnedest pavolvas I’ve ever tasted. They’ll be a dessert special tonite.

On the Radio
posted by Jay on 01 Jun 2008

The Pros: Troy Johnson talks Linkery on KPBS’s These Days. The Amateur: I talk Linkery and Guadalupe Valley on Signonsandiego Radio. (Choose the 21 May show…I think my bits start around the 22 minute mark.)

Move Plus 8 Days (Official Opening minus 39 Days)
posted by Jay on 01 Jun 2008

One week in, it’s still fun. Hard, but fun. Our “soft opening” is kind of a conceptual thing, with 200+ people coming in every weekend nite! For which we are grateful, and working hard to get capable of handling well. There’s so much more activity on this corner than our last [...]

The email said Hinesley steak, Jay meant Black Marlin Porter
posted by Steph on 28 May 2008

We just tapped the only cask in town of Black Marlin porter spiked with licorice root and oak chips by Ballast Point. The additions are mild but the cask overall is fantastic. See you all soon.

Slight Change In Plans
posted by Jay on 28 May 2008

The debut of the “Hinesley Steak” (pork belly braised, wrapped in bacon, and then grilled) is actually scheduled for Thursday, not today as I had said in the email. I misunderstood the schedule. Please accept my apologies.

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open every day
full kitchen 5:30pm to 11:30pm

3794 30th St
at North Park Way in North Park
San Diego CA USA

619 255 8778

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